Sagamore Hill is closed, but you can still visit Teddy Roosevelt
Photo credit: T.C. McCarthy | Theodore Roosevelt, as portrayed by Sea Cliff's James Foote, talks with Sagamore Hill visitor Sal Calamia, of Whitestone, Queens. (December 3, 2011)
Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill is now closed to visitors for a three-year, $6.2-million rehabilitation project, but that doesn't prevent Long Islanders from getting to know the 26th U.S. president close to home.
While the 23-room manse (Teddy's home from 1885 until his death in 1919) is off-limits, the grounds of the 83-acre National Historic Site remain open to the public -- and winter...
